Seems that old man Winter is finally leaving — it’s been a long season this year, for sure. Everyone is energized and ready to get their booths in shape, spit shined and polished. I was talking to a few other booth owners that were working in their spaces and we all seem to be analyzing [...]
The street light banners are up! We spent a few hours this past weekend at the booth, rearranging and add some new merchandise — gearing up for the Riley Festival. We’ll do it again this coming weekend as it will be our last chance to get things just so before the festival starts on Thursday, [...]
The 2012 Riley Festival is only 3 weeks away! We are busy setting up and getting the booth stocked really full so it can last the full 4 days. During the festival it is impossible to get close enough to JW Riley’s Emporium to re-stock. Unless you can carry it in your hands while walking [...]
Okay, the 6th installment coming up! This installment of cool vintage items features small items or “smalls”. These go pretty fast in a booth so we have to have some back-up. We try to keep our eyes open for interesting and fun smalls that we think our clients would like. It can’t be ordinary or [...]
It’s been tough this season, keeping up with the sales and replace items in the booth. The yard sales haven’t been as great as in past years and one of our favorite auction houses has gone down from one a week to one every two weeks. They say the economy is getting better, yet we [...]
This past weekend was a HUGE, about 40 miles long, yard sale along the road we live on. We had so much fun going from sale to sale, seeing unique and different items, picking up stuff for ourselves and for the Vintage With A Twist booth. One thing my mom was looking for was patio [...]
It’s time for another addition of Cool Vintage Items! the yard, garage and tag sale season is heating up! We have been very busy cleaning out the garage and trying to get things to fixed up and ready to take to the Vintage With a Twist booth. Victor Talking In this addition, I’m gonna show [...]
Our garage is chock-full of miscellaneous items we picked up to eventually go in the booth. There weren’t a lot of auctions and sales through the winter but, somehow, we still ended up with a lot of stuff for the booth. Now, the job is to get out there and sort these vintage items into [...]
Achieving the look of a retro kitchen is pretty simple. It doesn’t have to be all out but elements here and there can really make that homey, feel good kitchen of the 1950′s. In the 1950′s housewives dominated the kitchens. It was their domain. They wore patterned or frilly aprons while working to make 3 [...]
Things have been hopping around here. We did pretty well for February. The owners of our mall, JW Riley Emporium (Antiques) told us that February is usually a quiet month for sales but that we did well in spite! We are planning a pretty big overhaul soon. The garage is full of vintage items that [...]
Another really cool find this week. This time at an auction. A lot of Sheridan Silver Co. hollow ware was up for sale. It included a footed waiter’s tray, a tea pot, sugar bowl with lid and a tall creamer. We got it for a good price. It was very tarnished so today I drug [...]
I had a great Sunday. I ended up visiting a few of my favorite thrift stores — just walking the aisles and checking things out. I ran across a globe that was very interesting looking. I have always loved globes. It’s interesting to me to be able to see the world or hold it in [...]
Precious Moments figurines are a collectible figurine made by artist Sam Butcher. They were very popular when I started collecting them in the 1980′s. My first piece was the bride and groom (Lord Bless You and Keep You) given to me by my future sister-in-law. We used it as our wedding cake topper. I visited [...]
Yup, Spring is coming! The retail world is already hauling out the garden center products along with grills and patio furniture. Swimsuits will be making an appearance soon too! At the Vintage With A Twist booth, we are packing up all holiday touches in favor of Spring colors and anything that will support the Spring [...]
This is a short installment of cool vintage items we have in the booth right now. As I said in a previous post, inventory is down at this time of year but it’s still worth a look at some cool vintage items! The first item is actually two. The vintage gas stove is really nice. [...]
It’s going slower than I would have liked. We have had several problems crop up that have limited our time available to work on re-doing the booth this January. Some good — some bad — such is life. We got a call from the owner of Riley Emporium the other day. She said the booth [...]
Yup, only had the booth for a little over a month and we are expanding! The joint venture is working well but we need more space. We are finding that the items we have for sale include more furniture than we had first envisioned. Vintage, antique and re-styled furniture takes up a lot more space [...]
Now that Christmas has past and the New Year is only a couple of days away, we are getting ready for a re-do of the Vintage with a Twist booth. We did a pretty major one at the beginning of October and just sorta refilled the last couple of months. Taking down the holiday decor, [...]
In late July, 2011, our little family group began our vintage/antique booth space endeavor — and subsequently, out vintage blog to follow the journey. We filled it with items we already owned and began the treasure seeking circuit to continue adding to our inventory. Today, almost a month later, our booth is a lot fuller [...]
Vintage with a Twist is a vintage shop and website that shares our love of vintage items. It’s a collaborative effort of four people, Ann, Heather, Debbie and Mandee. We have a booth space in a lovely antique/vintage mall in Greenfield, Indiana. The J.W. Riley Emporium is located in beautiful downtown Greenfield. Ann is the [...]
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We are located inside the J.W. Riley Antique Mall in beautiful downtown Greenfield, IN. J.W. Riley Antique Mall 107 W. Main Street Greenfield, IN 46140 317-462-5268 Mall Hours: Monday –
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My mom is a Dachshund nut! She just loved the little wiener dogs. We almost always had one while I was growing up. The two that stick out the most in my memory were Hilda (from the time I was about 4 until I was 14) and Lucy, the 14 year old Dachshund they have [...]
In the last post, I showed you one of our displays that had quite a few Coca-Cola items on it. Here it is again: We got a call from the mall owners that we needed to move things around and make a space in the corner of our booth. Seems they are adding a [...]
Okay, the 6th installment coming up! This installment of cool vintage items features small items or “smalls”. These go pretty fast in a booth so we have to have some back-up. We try to keep our eyes open for interesting and fun smalls that we think our clients would like. It can’t be ordinary or [...]
It’s time for another addition of Cool Vintage Items! the yard, garage and tag sale season is heating up! We have been very busy cleaning out the garage and trying to get things to fixed up and ready to take to the Vintage With a Twist booth. Victor Talking In this addition, I’m gonna show [...]
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